Articles | Volume 19, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13383-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13383-2019
Research article
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30 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2019

Relative-humidity-dependent organic aerosol thermodynamics via an efficient reduced-complexity model

Kyle Gorkowski, Thomas C. Preston, and Andreas Zuend

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